Tuesday, March 16, 2010

"Precious" director hires Brit to play MLK (Reuters)

"Precious" director hires Brit to play MLK (Reuters)


"Precious" director hires Brit to play MLK (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Lee Daniels is firming up the cast of "Selma," his civil-rights follow-up to "Precious," even as its funding is on shaky ground.


Sigourney Weaver the queen in horror-comedy Vamps (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Sigourney Weaver, who fought a monster queen in "Aliens," will now act as a vampire queen in "Vamps."


How to Get on a Reality Show

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PDT

The casting director of Amazing Grace and Survivor tells Wired what it takes to get a role in reality TV.


Goran Visnjic joins ABC crime drama pilot (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:36 PM PDT

Reuters - "ER" alumnus Goran Visnjic is in negotiations to co-star in the ABC crime drama pilot "Boston's Finest."


"Smallville" duo bring "Existence 2.0" to screen (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Paramount has picked up rights to the comic book "Existence 2.0," with the duo behind "Smallville" attached to adapt.


'American Idol's' Top 12 Tackle Rolling Stones Catalog; Cowell Says Bowersox Loses Edge

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:09 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Crystal Bowersox lost her lead on "American Idol" on Tuesday night to a 19-year-old contender who judge Kara DioGuardi said gave a performance that offered hints of Season 8's most dynamic big stage entertainer, Adam Lambert.


The CW's Nomads Recruits Michaela McManus

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 07:15 PM PDT

Law & Order: SVU's Michaela McManus is joining the CW pilot Nomads, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

McManus, 26, will play a young CIA hopeful who must...


'American Idol' Top 12: Crystal Bowersox, Siobhan Magnus Come Out On Top - MTV.com

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:06 PM PDT


USA Today

'American Idol' Top 12: Crystal Bowersox, Siobhan Magnus Come Out On Top
MTV.com
Didi Benami and Casey James also get praise from the judges during big-stage debut. By Gil Kaufman The "American Idol" season-nine top 12 made it to the big stage Tuesday night (March 16) to take on the songs of the Rolling Stones. ...
Rolling Stones tunes supply 'Idol' surprisesThe Associated Press
Few stand out in long, uneventful 'Idol' showmsnbc.com
'American Idol' on Rolling Stones night: How did the Top 12 fare?Entertainment Weekly
Foxes on Idol -Sun-Sentinel -USA Today
all 280 news articles »


Sawyer’s Back! And who’s fooling who? Start talking about tonight’s ‘Lost’!

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 07:30 PM PDT

When Lost fans speak of "set-up" episodes, they're usually trying to be kind about an hour wherein nothing really happened besides moving characters emotionally and placing them geographically so they are primed and positoned for more eventful episodes to come. This wasn't that kind of "set-up" episode, even though it often played this part very


'One Tree Hill' alum in 'Nomads'

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PDT

Michael Ausiello confirms exclusively that Michaela McManus lands lead in ''Alias''-esqe pilot for the CW


Rolling Stones tunes supply 'Idol' surprises (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:09 PM PDT

In this publicity image released by Fox, the 12 male finalists for the ninth season of the reality singing competetion, 'American Idol,' front row from left, Andrew Garcia, John Park, Tyler Grady, Joe Munoz and Jermaine Sellers and, back row, from left, Lee Dewyze, Aaron Kelly, Tim Urban, Michael Lynche, Todrick Hall, Casey James and Alex Lambert, are shown. (AP Photo/Fox, Patrick Ecclestein)AP - Tim Urban couldn't get any satisfaction on "American Idol."



Film goes behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:25 PM PDT

Reuters - "Saturday Night" seems like such a natural idea for a documentary -- charting the week of writing and preparation that go into an episode of "Saturday Night Live" -- that it's hard to believe it hasn't been made before. James Franco got the idea after hosting the show in September 2008, and exec producer Lorne Michaels gave him the go-ahead to bring in cameras and record an entire week.


Teen angst revived, again, in "American Sleepover" (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Reuters - It takes either courage or ignorance for a first-time director to tell the kind of story John Hughes, Richard Linklater, Judd Apatow and George Lucas have already done so well, but David Robert Mitchell nearly pulls it off in "The Myth of the American Sleepover."


Spoof "MacGruber" does its best with thin material (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:47 PM PDT

Reuters - Utterly disposable but diverting, "MacGruber" manages to spin feature-length product out of an idea that few would try expanding beyond a "Saturday Night Live" skit.


911 tape released in actor Corey Haim's death (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Pallbearers carry the casket of actor Corey Haim from a memorial chapel in Toronto March 16, 2010. Canadian-born Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles March 10 of an apparent prescription drug overdose.      REUTERS/Mike Cassese   (CANADA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT OBITUARY)Reuters - Authorities on Tuesday released the 911 tape in actor Corey Haim's sudden death at age 38, as family gathered in his home town of Toronto for a private funeral service for the former teen movie star.



Rolling Stones tunes supply 'Idol' surprises (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:09 PM PDT

In this publicity image released by Fox, the 12 male finalists for the ninth season of the reality singing competetion, 'American Idol,' front row from left, Andrew Garcia, John Park, Tyler Grady, Joe Munoz and Jermaine Sellers and, back row, from left, Lee Dewyze, Aaron Kelly, Tim Urban, Michael Lynche, Todrick Hall, Casey James and Alex Lambert, are shown. (AP Photo/Fox, Patrick Ecclestein)AP - Tim Urban couldn't get any satisfaction on "American Idol."



‘American Idol’ on Rolling Stones night: How did the Top 12 fare?

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 07:11 PM PDT

"(I Haven't Been Able to Get No) Satisfaction" from most of the current crop of American Idol finalists over the past three weeks. And though I'm not sure tonight's telecast turned that trend on its head, at least the bulk of the dozen performances didn't use the pages of the Rolling Stones songbook to line


Dancing's Anna Trebunskaya Flying Out the Window?

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 07:00 PM PDT

Dancing with the Stars pro Anna Trebunskaya hears the chatter about her partner, Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek, but she's not listening. "It kind of freaked me out at first because people were already talking about it, like, 'Well, he's going to win; he's definitely going to go far,'" she tells TVGuide.com. "But then I forgot about it because we can only try our best and the rest is out of our control. I'm just concentrating on our dances." Their rehearsals are going well, she says — except for the instances when she fears she will fly out the window. See why the 29-year-old thinks she'll take flight, why she likes working with athletes and who she's going to recruit to help out Lysacek.


Tom Selleck in Talks to Star in Untitled CBS Pilot

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PDT

Magnum P.I. star Tom Selleck is in talks to play the lead role in an untilted CBS cop drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The pilot, formerly known as Reagan's Law, comes from Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green and revolves around a family of New York cops. Selleck will play Michael, the NYPD chief of police who...


NBC to Launch Losing It with Jillian in June

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:28 PM PDT

NBC just can't get enough of Jillian Michaels.

The star trainer of the network's reality hit, The Biggest Loser, will launch her own series, Losing It with Jillian, on June 1, the network announced Tuesday.

Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels discusses her new weight-loss show

The series will follow Michaels, 36, as she moves in...


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